Reflection for "Castro's Last Battle" by Jon Lee Anderson

Families around the world slowly keep on falling apart. The families are still together but as generations go, they connect less. Families before would always be together and they would connect with things better because that was one of the many traditions in the past. The women and the daughters would cook and clean together and the men and their sons would hunt together. Now the children in the families are more apart. They have their own lives out of the house and they start to use that one more than the life in the house. Some families, according to how they were raised to be, don’t interact through out the day; the family members spend it doing their own things. By doing this, they families grow apart and when they need help from someone, they can’t trust their family to help. Other families are the opposite; they trust each other and spend most of their time together. These families are the ones that stick together and are the ones that are more alike to the ones that they had in the past. These families are all different and there are positive and negative things about bout of them. One type trusts each other and they can lean on each others shoulder for help, but the other is able to make mistakes on their own and learn from them.

In this article, the Castro family first doesn’t trust each other and later they do. When they do not trust each other, Fidel Castro orders a secretary for Raul Castro to help him do things right. They also do not talk to each other a lot. The family is so big that they don’t remember what job the other is in. Also in the news reports, they did not know exactly how many children and ex-wives he has had. I think this means that he didn’t tell anybody about them because he doesn’t care about them that much. In another part of the article, they say that Fidel Castro expected that, when he dies, his brother, Raul, would continue after him. Here it means that Fidel trusted his brother, along with other people, would be able to continue doing is job right. At the end of the article it talked about a baseball game in the end. At the baseball game a few of the family members were their. This shows me that they cared about Fidel that they went to the baseball game to watch. Also some of the family members had a job there.

In my family, I think that we would use both types of family’s. We all stick together and we trust each other. When we are stuck in a problem we always know that we have each other to go to for help, but we also know that we can try to resolve it alone. We feel as if we can try to be independent but we remember that we can trust the other person and be able to ask them for help. I think that this type of family is good because we all are able to make mistakes and learn from them but we are also able to ask each other for help. In our family we also know how to keep our own secrets. We each trust each other but still it is always good to have secrets and that is how we are.